Sacred Art on the Second Sunday

Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! (Jn. 1:29). ⧾ This declaration made by John the Baptist and...

Fourth Sunday of Lent: Siloam and Spiritual Blindness

Once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light – for the fruit of the light...

Against the New Integralists

Once upon a time, political discourse among orthodox Catholics was dominated by the old First Things school – Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, George Weigel,...

Myriads upon Myriads

A blessed solemnity of All Saints' to all our readers, a feast that goes back to the earliest days of the Church, as a...

Labour Day

The memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, this year also happens to be Labour Day, which can be traced back, in Canada, to 1872,...

The Dilemmas of Atheism

“When the Son of man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). The following random reflections on atheism address what many...

Everyday Advice from Saint Thomas

One of the greatest minds of all time is certainly that of St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), whose feast we celebrate on this January 28th. Even...

Our Secret Vote: God is Watching

John Gerard Lewis has written a book that might startle many cafeteria Catholics who consider themselves fully liberated from the fixed and objective traditions...

Second Sunday of Advent: The Baptist’s Call to Repentance

The nations shall inquire of him, and his dwelling shall be glorious (Is. 11:10). The Gospel of the Mass on this second Sunday of Advent...

Two Justins

Today is, or rather was, as I am getting to this rather late, the memorial of Saint Justin Martyr, an early apologist for the...